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		Canadian Northern Railway
			
				1  Richmond Hill Photo Images: The 
					 Canadian
						Northern (later 
					 Canadian
						National) Railway
			
				2  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  council meeting to request the Canadian Northern Railway (James Bay) to survey the line so as to touch at 
			
				3  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  first ever sold on the line of the Canadian Northern Railway. Mr. Wiley took the train Monday morning at 
			
				4  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  day all along the line of the Canadian Northern Railway. The road was opened for regular passenger 
			
				5  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Bay Railway - later known as the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway, then simply the Canadian Northern, and 
			
				6  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  was built to give the transcontinental Canadian Northern Railway access to southern Ontario. The long-awaited 
			
				7  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  Hill's steam railway, however, the Canadian Northern/ Canadian National station drew most 
			
				8  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  of Gormley - where the James Bay/ Canadian Northern Railway had a dramatic impact during the first decade of 
			
				9  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  It was not until the James Bay/ Canadian Northern Railway arrived, however, that New Gormley really 
			
				10  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  radial railway and the Canadian Northern steam line. Population had increased at a snail's pace - from 
			
				11  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  in the years after 1906 thanks to the Canadian Northern Railway, and Lake Wilcox prepared to welcome a 
			
				12  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  sunny eastern slope, close to both Canadian Northern and radial railway shipping 
			
				13  Early Days in Richmond Hill:  of coal skidded off the end of the Canadian Northern Railway tracks. High winds in the spring of 1914 broke  A 
								
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